isogram en · NOUN
Etymology
From iso- + -gram. The "contour line" sense was proposed in 1889 by Francis Galton.
Meanings
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A word in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once.
For convenience, we can refer to an isogram of order n as an n-isogram. The examples in (2a) are 1-isograms, (2b) 2-isograms, and (2c) 3-isograms. Second- and third-order isograms are also sometimes referred to as pair and trio isograms respectively, but I will not use these terms here.
2017 January 1, Florian Breit, “The Distribution of English Isograms in Google Ngrams and the British National Corpus”, in Bangor University, page 2:
- A line on a map or chart, such as a contour line, joining points that have the same value for some quantity.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| isograms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |